MP3's

Ok, MP3's on this blog (designated by the links that seem like maybe they're songs) are for sampling purposes. So, if you like something you find on this site go buy some stuff by that artist. Go see a show.

If you're not happy that I put an MP3 up on this blog, just email me to take it down and it'll be down.

All MP3's are up for 10 days. Or when I remember to get take them down.

If you want to email me to say hi, ask me to take something down, ask me to put something up (i.e. bands wanting me to check out their music), or anything else, email me at aodblog@gmail.com. You can remember it because it's the Appetite FOr Distraction blog!"But James, you say, why isn't it afdblog?" The answer is, of course, I didn't pay attention to the letters in the initials of my blog. Le sigh.

Lots of soundtracks coming up in the next couple of weeks. I think it would be interesting to see what caused so many #1 soundtrack albums around this time. Is it that people mostly bought singles but when it came to soundtracks, they were willing to buy the whole thing?

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

This song is pretty much the biggest song to come out this year. It debuts at #1 and is breaking all sorts of streaming records. Her new album 25, comes out on 11/20 and is already slated to sell much more than 1 million copies. I even saw speculation about whether it might break 2 million. Unreal. This has more than 200 million views on Youtube and it came out last week, I believe.

And here's something fun. BBC1 got David Attenborough to narrate the beginning of the video as he would a nature documentary. What an age to be alive!

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Coming in a little late on this one, but we've been preparing for the week and last night was, of course, Halloween. Fortunately, this month was really easy!

Last Thing I Watched: We watched a very enjoyable, non-Treehouse of Horror, Simpsons Halloween episode last night called "Halloween of Horror" and it was very enjoyable!

Last Thing I Read: I'm finishing up It which has felt very appropriate for the Halloween season. I love Stephen King books so much. More than being scary, I find them often quite touching. Tales about friends banding together and fighting evil. Really works for me. This book has been a lot of that!

Last Thing I Listened To: We had Pandora on while we were looking at Disney pictures that we want to put in a photo album. I made sure to note what was playing at midnight and it was this soul classic. You GOTTA love this song.

Things I'm Seeing on the Internet: Tons of Halloween pics, of course. I love seeing everyone's ideas. And, the image that I posted is one I found on Reddit from the 1890's. It's a costume design that I'm still seeing around these days. And then there are the more typical old Halloween costumes like the one from 1911 posted below. Basically terrifying.

Also terrifying and on the horizon...Election Day is this month. On Tuesday, in fact!